The Syntax for the QuickBasic Compiler
Edward G. Nilges · Apress eBooks · 2004
The late, hero computer scientist was just wrong about Basic. Dijkstra’s comment is academic sociology at its worst. It creates the illusion that programming skill derives from the use of politically correct platforms and languages. 1 Dijkstra was wrong because Visual Basic is Turing-complete, and it has a formal and sensible syntax. Visual Basic is Turing-complete because you can use it to write any program, as long as you disregard resource consumption. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.